cows

 

dairy cows were first brought to Australia n 1788

my guess is that these are Jerseys 

activities

There are plenty of stamps featuring men but I wanted to find some who were doing things, rather than sitting in a portrait, or posing.  In this case, we have some anonymous men racing, plowing, and planting.

crops

 

A 1961 stamp honouring the roles grassland and livestock play in American Agriculture. Painting of The Trail Boss by Charles M Russell.

Maize is the most important cereal crop in Ghana

 

 

 

The bright yellow of rapeseed fields in Saskatchewan.  Painting by Dorothy Knowles

wineries

A renowned wine and culinary destination

oranges

No health and safety here at this orange orchard in Florida

The Sunshine State

best foods

Developed by doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1931, Pablum was the first baby food that was already precooked and dried and ready to serve. It contains ground and precooked wheat, oatmeal, corn meal, bone meal, dried brewers yeast, and powdered alfalfa leaf, and fortified with iron.
This baby seems to like it.

photo of surprised baby by Ron Baxter Smith



From pablum, children may naturally progress to fries, or chips, as their next favourite food.
The McCain brothers started this company in New Brunswick where potatoes are the main crop. They are the world's largest producers of frozen potatoes.

photo by Rod Stears with Tourism and Parks New Brunswick




For Sunday Stamps - food

facing the sun

The Prairies in Canada include Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
In the States, it would be North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, plus parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, indiana, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Texaco, Missouri.

harvest

Sri Lanka is the fourth largest producer of tea (according to wikipedia) and here we have a woman 'plucking tea' in 1938  (l) and 1958 (r).  Most of the tea pickers are women and girls and it is one of the few countries where each tea leaf is harvested by hand.

for Sunday Stamps - harvest

flat

the fields of Saskatchewan, a province in the middle of the country

Sunday Stamps II - 17

issued 2013  with a value of €0.58 (at the time of issue)
part of the series 'workhorses of our regions' in this case the Gironde region
but there is man working behind the horse as they make their way between the rows of vines which will eventually become Bordeaux wine.The man ploughing is quite diminutive compared to his working horse!

the graphic design is by Elodie Dumoulin

for people at work

also sharing with Sepia Saturday for horses (pure co-incidence, especially since I forgot!)